Microsoft paying news outlets to bail on Google
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I don't think it's an ethics concern; it's a concern for MS's shareholders about how it's going to further damage its non-Windows finances.
That is what I am thinking. Paying someone not to use the other guy? Just seems wrong to me.
Thank you, I wasn't going to say it.
I don't much like the idea of going to the store for food and being told which brands I may purchase.
Then go to a different store. This happens naturally in stores all the time as some carry brands that others do not.
Nope. Not in the slightest. It would become an ethical concern if Google were forced to index or display results they would otherwise choose not to(for whatever reason that may be).
Yeah the whole safe search service that google provides would have to killed if they where forced to show all indexed material without some sort of warning. I think if Microsoft where able to innovate better ideas they would not have ideas of paying off sites to remove their indexing from Google. As in the end it hurts the end the end user and will decrease traffic from those that remove their results from Google search. One rule of business that many large companies keep forgetting is if you want to beat the other guy you should work hard at it and innovate to keep ahead of your competitor. Google did this and now they are number 1 in the search engine game. I don't know about you guys but when I use Bing I don't always find what I am looking for when compared to what I get when I use Google.
Upon re-reading the initial article this makes no sense. What I meant to communicate was that if a search engine (such as Bing or Google) decides on their own to not list something (for whatever reason) it is not unethical. It however would be unethical to force them to list something they would otherwise choose not to (for whatever reason).